At work I have a Windows PC. I don’t have much personal experience with Windows which is why I am asking.
I want to remap the caps lock key to function as a control key. Ideally, on a per-user basis as sometimes other people use the workstation and I don’t want to confuse them.
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Was able to install Auto Hot Key. A test script worked. However I couldn’t find working instructions about how to do this specific remapping. Example scripts I found seem to have some conflict between v1 and v2 of AH.
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I don’t have admin access however I could probably ask for something, but it would have to work immediately without a lot of fooling around. I will not be granted admin access to try a bunch of things til I find something that works.
What’s the best way?
The Microsoft PowerToys Keyboard Manager tool should allow you to do this.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/keyboard-manager
You will probably need admin access to install it, however.
Edit: Actually, apparently you don’t? I just installed it on my work PC here, and did not get any UAC prompts or anything. It can indeed reassign your caps lock key – I just tested this, and it works. (I mapped it to left ctrl.)
I tried installing Power Toys a while ago but the version of windows is too old to support it.